sábado, 21 de diciembre de 2013

Read the five sentences below. The same base word is missing from each sentence, but in different forms. Please note that in most cases several words can correctly complete one of the sentences, but there is only one base word that you can use in all five sentences. Enter the correct form of this word to complete each sentence.

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1) If you __________ your probation, you will be immediately re-arrested.
2) Each side in the conflict accused the other of the ceasefire ___________.
3) The U.S. has suspended all foreign aid to the country because of its history of human rights________.
4) I think having the press try to photograph the family of the victim during her funeral is a total _______ of their privacy.
5) No trespassing. ____________ will be prosecuted.

Read the five sentences below. The same base word is missing from each sentence, but in different forms. Please note that in most cases several words can correctly complete one of the sentences, but there is only one base word that you can use in all five sentences. Enter the correct form of this word to complete each sentence.

1) Scientists working in the battle against cancer are hoping to be able to _____________ the DNA of a cancer sufferer so that the disease kills itself.
2) She practises shiatsu, an oriental form of body ____________ , as well as massage.
3) I wouldn't trust Elinor; she is very _____________, and is friendly only when she thinks it is in her own interest.
4) The research results have obviously been _________________ in order to get the desired answers.
5) Advertising is the art of ______________ people into buying something they don't necessarily need.

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Read the five sentences below. The same base word is missing from each sentence, but in different forms. Please note that in most cases several words can correctly complete one of the sentences, but there is only one base word that you can use in all five sentences. Enter the correct form of this word to complete each sentence.

1) I much ______ locally made ale to the kind made by the big breweries.
2) Francis thought marmalade on toast was __________ to strawberry jam.
3) I would like to travel to Europe next spring, _____________ to Italy.
4) Joseph likes playing football, but Lawrence's ____________ is baseball.
5) Some of the parents of the other kids on the team believe the coach has been giving ____________ treatment to his own son.

Answers to Quiz 1

I much prefer locally made ale to the kind made by the big breweries.

Francis thought marmalade on toast was preferable to strawberry jam.

I would like to travel to Europe next spring, preferably to Italy.

Joseph likes playing football, but Lawrence's preference is baseball.

Some of the parents of the other kids on the team believe the coach has been giving preferential treatment to his own son.

As you can see, the base word is prefer, but each sentence has a different form og that word: verbs, adverbs, nouns, etc.

At the end, the tree is a stump, but she is not stumped. As a member of the genus tree, the end is melancholy, she is not flourishing. But as this tree defined by her love for this boy, all is well.
And the boy, who on the face of it seems awfully selfish, loved the tree. Very much, we are told. There was a forest, so there must have been many other trees, but he always came back to, played with, swung on, climbed up, and slept under this tree. Even when he is an old man he is still called “the boy,” which may indicate that he never grew up. Or maybe that he never outgrew his love for the tree, to whom he was always “Boy.”

After we are told that the boy loved the tree very much and that the tree was happy, we come to this, “But time went by.” Before that, all is idyllic and love is wondrously reciprocated; up to now the narrative is a succession of “and,” “and,” “and.” Now comes the abut” of time's testing. “But time went by.”

The boy has another love, while the tree has but one. Perhaps “Y.L.,” his other love, was an abiding love, even his wife (he takes the initials with him on the boat); perhaps not. It may be the tree was jealous of Y.L.—two leaves fall like tears when the boy lies with her in the shade.
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Each time the tree had made a proposal to the boy, she told him that he would then be happy. But not at the end. It's just, “Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.” No promise that he would be happy. But maybe he was, or at least happier than before, now that he is no longer filled with wants. “I don't need very much now,” he says.

The story is not about a tree and a boy. It is about this boy's tree and this tree's boy, and the ways of their loving, the ways of their belonging to one another, as time went by.

Jill Tullo, a Mother

Synopsis:
The story begins with a tree and boy who are best friends. The tree loves the boy, and the boy loves the tree. The tree gives the boy everything he needs from a vine to swing on to apples to shade to sit under. As the boy grows older, he visits the tree less and less, and when he does visit, he wants more and more. Because the tree loves him so much, it gives him everything he asks for until nothing is left but a stump. The boy leaves and returns many years later as an old man. The tree/stump tells him it has nothing left to give, and the boy/man says all he needs is a place to sit. The tree is happy again and gives him a place to rest.Initial Impression:
I chose this book to review because it's been one of my favorites for many years, and I absolutely love Shel Silverstein. Until I heard from some of you and did a little research, I had no idea that there were so many strong opinions about this book. Some love it, some hate it. Some say the boy is greedy and selfish and that children readers learn a horrible lesson. Others say it's the story of unconditional love...the kind of love a parent has for a child. Then there are those who compare the tree to Christ and his self-sacrifice.

My opinion? It's a great book...yes, it may not be the happiest book in the world and children could feel sad and sorry for the tree when they read it. However, I'm of the thought that we can't shelter our kids from the real world and always read them tales of happy bunnies and frogs and princesses who live happily everafter. Of course no parent wants to see thier children hurt or sad. I dread the day when my daughter comes home sad because someone else made fun of her. I dread the day when she gets rejected by a boy or doesn't get picked for the lead role in a play or something else she has her heart set on. But you know what? I also know that it will happen. She will be disappointed. She won't always be happy, and there will be times when she will be sad. I already got a taste of this the other morning when I dropped her off at daycare, kissed her goodbye, and heard her screaming for me down the hall as I left the building.